Our boy STICKY K is back with his next official release for the prestigious DUBSIDED label and man he’s back with an almighty BOOOM!!!

Sounding totally unique with snippets of Persian vocals and Bandari Funky percussion and deep & heavvvy basslines thrown in for good measure!!

Some of it sounding a bit like the theme to the infamous British kiddies cartoon “Rhubarb & Custard”…lol.

This one sounds like an almighty killa and a surefire dancefloor BOMB!!

Here’s a sneaky taster of his CALIFORNIA EP which comes out this week.

California EP Sampler

Here’s some older tracks for you too:

ELEPHANT 1,2,3,4 (STICKY K REMIX) – COUNT & SINDEN

JUMP UP (STICKY K REMIX) – MAJOR LAZER

PARA DE GRAHCINA (STICKY K REMIX) – CROOKERS

EL TIGERASO (STICKY K REMIX) – MALUCA

FINALLY, A DJ MIX:

Sticky K, “Sweet n’ Sticky Summer Mix”

Tracklist:
Major Lazer – Jump Up ft. Supahype (Sticky K remix)
Larry Tee – Let’s Make Nasty (Sticky K remix)
Crookers – Para de Grahcina ft. MC Leka (Sticky K remix)
Sticky K – The Weirdo
Sticky K – Bandari Funk
Act Yo Age – Night of the Hornheadz ft. Drop the Lime (Sticky K remix)
Sticky K – The Testament of Dr. Mabuse

Although the title sounds a bit dramatic, it wasnt meant to be just wanted to share some words on the last year and look into tha future like steve miller…

2009 was a great year for me and for GENERATION BASS. I made a lot of new friends from all over the globe with this blog, but also a few VERY special ones! First off, I tip my hat to the relentless energy and music addiction that is DJ UMB!!!! AMAR, you’ve been more than a co-writer on the blog, pushing it forward with your love of music and sheer energy mate! Since some time now, YOU have been the driving force behind the blog, while i’ve been busy travelling, dj-ing and basicly taking it slow(er), you have continued the posts, kept everybody on their toes and initiated new ideas and thought for GB. Total respect and love my friend!

Also a word has to go out to the equally amazing CABALLO, our latest blogger and the ever present HIPI DUKI. C has been super active and really pushing the limits with his excellent posts on all sorts of cool music and HIPI keeps coming up with these great comps… man…. A SUPER BIG THANKS & HUG!

And there are more peeps doing their thang… the great ZUZUKA and STICKY K, that have done great posts and helped out taking the blog to new levels and our guest contributors like FREDERIC GALLIANO and DAVE QUAM. Also a word o thanks to our techy behind the scenes… ERIK! Thank you all guys, without you we wouldnt be where we are today!

Where is that? you might ask? well… NEARING 500.000 VISITORS!!!!! In little over a year, this blog has turned into a beacon for all who love their bass music with a twist and who love the sounds of CUMBIA, KUDURO and all that other great NU WHIRLED MUSIC! Massive respect to YOU the readers of the BLOG, for keeping us on our toes and keep visiting this place in the great wide web to hang out and check out new music with us….

We will try to continue onwards and upwards with as many exclusives as possible, more indepth look at different musical scenes and producers and will also step up the interview game a notch! We will be GENERATION BASS in 2010 and want to aim for that magical number. There will be ANOTHER MAIN GB live EVENT in 2010, and we will continue to represent at parties worldwide with our love for good, new music. I hope you will be there with us!

T*H*A*N*K* Y*O*U* A*L*L*!!!!

may 2010 be a good year for you and those you love,

see ya in 2010!

-vince / generation bass

Ok, 2009 is almost up and so it’s THANK YOU time.

Just want to say a BIG, BIG thanks to Vince who had the vision and foresight to start up this blog back in February this year, were it not for him, Gen Bass would NOT EXIST.

Believe it or not I did not know much about blogs at that time and this blog was one of the first that I came across around that time and I instantly knew this was the one for me.  I was familiar with all this music and had been into it for a while but never thought about presenting it in this way.

Vince brought me on board and we just clicked.  I hope we managed to succeed in presenting to you the best new, innovative and ground-breaking Transnational Bass sounds out there in 2009.

Man we’ve had some huge highs, like the Manu Chao thing, being voted as Top 10 blog by Afropop Worldwide and getting accolades from some major superstar djs, artists, labels and music Godfathers.  Man we never thought we’d be this influential!!!

Then there’s the stats, which we find incredible to believe.  We keep on thinking there must be a hitch somewhere on the counter running up the stats, perhaps its putting too many zeros at the end of the numbers…lol

I want to thank everybody who’s been following us here.  Everybody who has followed me via Facebook, My Space, Fairtilizer and Soundcloud.

Man I get embarrassed by some of the amazing comments you guys leave for me and I often think have they left it for the wrong person, mistaken identity perhaps…lol…..but man it makes my day to hear the things you say and I’m eternally grateful to you for taking the time and making the effort to do so, that is SUPA DOPE!!!

Many of you often ask me…UMB..where do you find this shit…..and my reply is always, I just follow my nose, I can smell it and that’s how I find it!!!

Big, Big thanks also to our other blog homies:

Hipi Duki whose amazing Soundamerica series just goes from strength to strength.  Dude thanks so much for putting all the painstaking time and effort to put those great compilations together.  They’re unique and this is what we hope this blog is all about.

Caballo, my bro’ from another mo’.  Caballo has just been on FIRE since he started making contributions.  It was not long before I realized, dude, this guy is doing a better job than you are on some of the features you set up and so it’s pass the baton time and so Magnificent Sunday Seven has become Caballo’s M.S.7. rightfully and deservedly so.  Man he puts so much work, enthusiasm and detail into his posts, it’s incredible and we’re very lucky to have him on board.

I think what Caballo and Hipi both do that me and Vince could never do is present South American flava’s in a way which is more authentic and real than we could ever do.  Cause they’re both South American and it takes a South American to get into the real South American psyche.  There are certain things, maxims and a presence that a Dutch guy and a an English guy could never represent like a true South American!!!

Then there’s our superstar bloggers..lol…Sticky K, Zuzuka and Frederic Galliano.  Man these are people we look up to and yet here they are making a contribution to our humble blog and in return it demonstrates their humbleness.

Sticky has been very busy with a variety of things and so he’s not been able to make as much as a contribution as he said he’d like to have done but he keeps on delivering those exclusive remixes for us from time to time and man that is sikkk!!!

Zuzuka, has been keeping us all up to date with all that’s been going on in NYC with her parties’ and man that’s so COOL.

Frederic who has presented some amazing exclusive stuff from some of the major players in South Africa, Tony Armado-King of Kuduro and DJ Mbuso, in addition to exclusives of his own material.

Thanks also to Dave Quam and Wear Rock who also made a small contribution earlier in the year.

So what about 2010, well Vince will tell you a little bit more in his and our final post of 2009.

All that I can add is that we hope to have a Generation Bass Digi Label up and running in 2010 where we will present some very exciting artist and compilation releases.

BIG THANKS TO YOU ALL, I HOPE YOU’LL KEEP COMING BACK IN 2010!!

“APPEAR AS YOU ARE, BE AS YOU APPEAR” – {RUMI }

Our boy STICKY K is back with an EXCLUSIVE remix for all you GENERATION BASSER’S.

It’s a rmx of a COUNT & SINDEN track and it’s MEGAPHANT!!!

GRAB IT:

ELEPHANT 1,2,3,4 (STICKY K REMIX) – COUNT & SINDEN

Homies, some good news given to us by our good friend Garrett Baker of FlipSwitch PR who pointed us into the direction of AFROPOP WORLDWIDE, who have voted your boyz and girl into their Top 10 of the best blogs.

Man, we are very pleased with this considering we were not expecting it or any type of recognition of this sort.  That’s never been our aim.  Our aim is just to share what we love with whoever wants to lock into us.

It does feel great standing next to the other blogs in that list, Mad Decent, ZZK, Mudd Up, Dutty Artz, Ghetto Bassquake, Birdseed, Wayne & Wax, The Fader and some others.  A very impressive list of blogs, who we really look up to.

Man we’re stoked!

Thank you Afropop and thanks, everybody!

STICKY K, catch him monthly in San Francisco @ His Residency GOLDSWEAT at The Triple Crown on Second Saturdays.

Our boy STICKY K has been at it again with another 2 new remix BANGERS!

Firstly, he gives AMANDA BLANK’S “Might Like You Better” the remix treatment.

You already know that when Sticky K remixes something, it’s gonna be unique and BRILLIANT.  When I heard this one I had a permanent grin on my face.

He adds whooshes of bandari folk percussion and a little bit of oud to give the track a slight Middle Eastern feel whilst ensuring it does not betray it’s Western origins.

My only complaint is that it is far too short and I wish he’d indulged himself a little bit more and extended it to at “least” the 5 minute mark.  I could have continued listening and he left me wanting MORE as this type of vibe is what I love to play out as a DJ but you know as epic 9 minute tracks.

Perhaps an additional extended bandari percussion mix (an epic 10 minutes would be marvelous…hahahha) might be on the cards, please sir

Grab it, it’s brilliant and would slot in perfectly into a percussive neo-tropical ghetto house set!

Might Like You Better (Sticky K Remix)

Secondly, he remixes La Roux’s “Bulletproof” which also features some stabs of Busy Signal to great effect to give it a hip-hop/hip-house/lectro ghetto house flava in a typical Sticky K way.

Great stuff bro’.

Another great remix, our boy is flyin’.

Bulletproof feat Busy Signal (Sticky K Remix) – La Roux

Our boy STICKY K has been busy on the remix front again.  If you’re not already down with it, Sticky K is signed to Switch’s Dubsided label and is also doing some stuff for Sweat It Out too.  He appeared on Kissy Sell Out’s BBC Radio 1 show on July 24 with a guest mix.  Plus of course, the biggest thing to have graced his young world is that he’s a contributor here….hee.heee …check out his brilliant post on BANDARI FUNK.

You know he seems to be all over the place at the minute, which is great man as the prediction I made about him a little while back seems to be taking shape.  But he’s still young man and I think that this very talented American with Persian roots has not even scratched the tip of the iceberg yet with what he is capable of producing…so WATCH OUT!!!

Anyway, he sent me a couple of new remixes a few days back which have been arse-kicked into Sticky K territory, bouncing bass and brilliant breakdowns and sometimes infused with Bandari percussion.

The first one is a kind of Soca remix of Harder, Better, Stronger, Faster which builds and builds and then goes ballistic .

The second one is yet another Major Lazer Hold The Line remix and it seems to me that the best Hold The Line remixes are still coming.  Sticky K’s remix seems to carry with it the Daft Punk feel of the previous track and is quite hypnotic and cinematic with a slight Goblin feel to it also.

DAFT PUNK – HARDER, BETTER, FASTER, STRONGER (STICKY K REMIX)

MAJOR LAZER – HOLD THE LINE (STICKY K REMIX)

Whilst we’re here also pick up his crazy MALUCA-CA-CA-CA Remix of El Tigeraso.

MALUCA – EL TIGERASO (STICKY K REMIX)

Just had to drop this one in as our homie (& of course Switch’s as he’s signed to his dubsided label) and GENERATION BASS contributor drops a  mix for the cool dudes over there at THE FADER.

Here’s what they say:

Bay Area producer/DJ Sticky K whipped up this mix of his hottest remixes and original tracks especially for us—a healthy sampling of his mastery of synths you can bite into, and the kind of creative drummy reworking that landed him a coveted spot in Switch’s heart (and on his label). This mix includes his take on Major Lazer, Crookers, Larry Tee and Drop the lime, plus his own tracks—the single “Bandari Funk” has had a crucial spot in our workouts as of late, and he recently broke down the Persian origins of Bandari (and his cheeky reference to it) over at Generation Bass. On the “Sweet n’ Sticky” mix though, the historical falls away for the purely visceral, house crunches whipping into a heavy bass frenzy.

Download: Sticky K, “Sweet n’ Sticky Summer Mix”

Tracklist:
Major Lazer – Jump Up ft. Supahype (Sticky K remix)
Larry Tee – Let’s Make Nasty (Sticky K remix)
Crookers – Para de Grahcina ft. MC Leka (Sticky K remix)
Sticky K – The Weirdo
Sticky K – Bandari Funk
Act Yo Age – Night of the Hornheadz ft. Drop the Lime (Sticky K remix)
Sticky K – The Testament of Dr. Mabuse

As some of you may or may not know, I have an EP out on Dubsided called “Bandari Funk”.

It was meant to be a cheeky reference to Baile Funk to mess with the press (kinda like Fidget house was). But what exactly is “Bandari”?

Essentially, it’s the traditional form of Persian/Iranian dance music that still persists today. Not all Persian music has Bandari elements though.  For example, the music of the Googoosh in the 70’s was pretty much western influenced lounge/pop music than actual Persian music.

Like Cumbia or Soca for example, Bandari has a very specific and distinguishable rhythm.

The first track I posted is “Ashegham” from singer Suzan Rushan’s album  “Shazdaih I Ishq”

ASHEGHAM

Notice the 2/5 beat that it begins with. This is the Bandari break and this is how you can tell it apart from other forms of Iranian music.

Now to show the difference here’s another track from the album that clearly is not bandari.

SHAHZADEH

Phew! we’ll leave it there for now.

This is just scratching the surface of Bandari music as well as Persian music as well.

Keep an eye out for LESSON 2 as I go into other forms of Iranian dance music as well as more bandari.